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<taxonomicName LSID="A9F3C9347685E40EC55176C8E73C8E04" class="Diplopoda" family="Glomeridae" genus="Hyleoglomeris" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Hyleoglomeris rukouqu" order="Glomerida" pageId="6" pageNumber="63" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="rukouqu">Hyleoglomeris rukouqu</taxonomicName>
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<figureCitation captionStart="Figure 3" captionStartId="F3" captionText="Figure 3. A Hyleoglomeris rukouqu sp. nov. from Shangshuiyan Cave B Hyleoglomeris xuxiakei sp. nov. from Guanshan No. 4 Cave C Hylomus yuani sp. nov. from Liangfeng Cave D Eutrichodesmus jianjia sp. nov. from Guanshan No. 4 Cave." figureDoi="10.3897/subtbiol.30.35559.figure3" httpUri="https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/314551" pageId="6" pageNumber="63">Figs 3A</figureCitation>
,
<figureCitation captionStart="Figure 5" captionStartId="F5" captionText="Figure 5. Hyleoglomeris rukouqu sp. nov., holotype. A-C Habitus, dorsal, lateral and ventral views, respectively." figureDoi="10.3897/subtbiol.30.35559.figure5" httpUri="https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/314553" pageId="6" pageNumber="63">5</figureCitation>
,
<figureCitation captionStart="Figure 6" captionStartId="F6" captionText="Figure 6. Hyleoglomeris rukouqu sp. nov., holotype. A leg 17, anterior view B leg 18; anterior view C right half of telopods, posterior view D right half of telopods, anterior views E tip of syncoxital horn, anterior view." figureDoi="10.3897/subtbiol.30.35559.figure6" httpUri="https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/314554" pageId="6" pageNumber="63">6</figureCitation>
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<paragraph pageId="6" pageNumber="63">Type material.</paragraph>
<paragraph pageId="6" pageNumber="63">
Holotype male (SCAU), China, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, Yangshou County, Shangshuiyan Cave [
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,
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], 191 m elevation (el.), cave entrance, ferns and other vegetation (refer to habitat section below), direct intuitive search, 17 November 2016, J.J. Wynne leg. Paratype, 1 female (SCAU), same data as holotype.
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<paragraph pageId="6" pageNumber="63">Etymology.</paragraph>
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The species name,
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, is used as a noun in apposition from the Mandarin phrase,
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<normalizedToken originalValue="qū"></normalizedToken>
(入口区). When translated to English it means &quot;entrance zone&quot; or &quot;entrance area&quot; to denote the area in the cave where this species was collected.
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<paragraph pageId="6" pageNumber="63">Diagnosis.</paragraph>
<paragraph pageId="6" pageNumber="63">
Adult male of
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="63">H. rukouqu</emphasis>
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sp. nov. is distinct from other
<taxonomicName class="Diplopoda" family="Glomeridae" genus="Hyleoglomeris" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Hyleoglomeris" order="Glomerida" pageId="6" pageNumber="63" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="63">Hyleoglomeris</emphasis>
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species based on the following combination of characters: (1) peculiar color pattern (
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); (2) telopods with a large, rectangular, central syncoxital lobe (
<figureCitation captionStart="Figure 6" captionStartId="F6" captionText="Figure 6. Hyleoglomeris rukouqu sp. nov., holotype. A leg 17, anterior view B leg 18; anterior view C right half of telopods, posterior view D right half of telopods, anterior views E tip of syncoxital horn, anterior view." figureDoi="10.3897/subtbiol.30.35559.figure6" httpUri="https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/314554" pageId="6" pageNumber="63">Fig. 6D</figureCitation>
). This new species is similar to
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="63">H. lii</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
(a troglophile from a cave in Guangxi), but is distinguished by (1) 2+2 dark brown spots on the thoracic shield (
<figureCitation captionStart="Figure 5" captionStartId="F5" captionText="Figure 5. Hyleoglomeris rukouqu sp. nov., holotype. A-C Habitus, dorsal, lateral and ventral views, respectively." figureDoi="10.3897/subtbiol.30.35559.figure5" httpUri="https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/314553" pageId="6" pageNumber="63">Fig. 5B, C</figureCitation>
)
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="63">vs.</emphasis>
1+1 light grey-yellow spots in
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="63">H. lii</emphasis>
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; (2) sycoxital lobe of telopods being high, large and rectangle-shaped (
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)
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="63">vs.</emphasis>
low, linguiform, apically evidently concave in
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="63">H. lii</emphasis>
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.
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<paragraph pageId="6" pageNumber="63">Description.</paragraph>
<paragraph lastPageId="7" lastPageNumber="64" pageId="6" pageNumber="63">
Based on type specimens. Length
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="63">ca</emphasis>
8.0 mm (holotype), 11.0 mm (paratype), width 5.0 mm (holotype), 7.0 mm (paratype).
<emphasis bold="true" italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="63">Coloration</emphasis>
: pattern vivid (
<figureCitation captionStart="Figure 3" captionStartId="F3" captionText="Figure 3. A Hyleoglomeris rukouqu sp. nov. from Shangshuiyan Cave B Hyleoglomeris xuxiakei sp. nov. from Guanshan No. 4 Cave C Hylomus yuani sp. nov. from Liangfeng Cave D Eutrichodesmus jianjia sp. nov. from Guanshan No. 4 Cave." figureDoi="10.3897/subtbiol.30.35559.figure3" httpUri="https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/314551" pageId="6" pageNumber="63">Fig. 3A</figureCitation>
). With the exception of the brown dorsal spots, this species had similar coloration as that of the limestone rock and sediment within the entrance. General coloration in alcohol (
<figureCitation captionStart="Figure 5" captionStartId="F5" captionText="Figure 5. Hyleoglomeris rukouqu sp. nov., holotype. A-C Habitus, dorsal, lateral and ventral views, respectively." figureDoi="10.3897/subtbiol.30.35559.figure5" httpUri="https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/314553" pageId="6" pageNumber="63">Fig. 5</figureCitation>
) light yellowish with contrastingly dark spots, latter absent on rings 3 and 11. Head only brownish caudal margin, antennae and ommatidia dark-brownish. Collum mostly marbled dark-brown except frontal margin part. Thoracic shield with 2+2 dark brown spots, but lateral ones smaller than middle ones. Terga 4 with 1+1 brownish spots, smaller than the above. Terga 5-7 and pygidium with 1+1 large, oblong, transverse, paramedian, marbled, dark spots. Terga 8-10, these paramedian spots increasingly separated into 2+2, but lateral ones smaller than middle ones.
<emphasis bold="true" italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="63">Head</emphasis>
: Ommatidium at least 7+1, lenses rather convex.
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organ transverse-oval, parallel to the body, only slightly wider than long. Antennae with four apical cones, antennomere 6
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="63">ca</emphasis>
2.5 times as long as
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.
<emphasis bold="true" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="64">Exoskeleton</emphasis>
: Collum with two transverse striae (
<figureCitation captionStart="Figure 5" captionStartId="F5" captionText="Figure 5. Hyleoglomeris rukouqu sp. nov., holotype. A-C Habitus, dorsal, lateral and ventral views, respectively." figureDoi="10.3897/subtbiol.30.35559.figure5" httpUri="https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/314553" pageId="7" pageNumber="64">Fig. 5C</figureCitation>
). Thoracic shield (
<figureCitation captionStart="Figure 5" captionStartId="F5" captionText="Figure 5. Hyleoglomeris rukouqu sp. nov., holotype. A-C Habitus, dorsal, lateral and ventral views, respectively." figureDoi="10.3897/subtbiol.30.35559.figure5" httpUri="https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/314553" pageId="7" pageNumber="64">Fig. 5B</figureCitation>
) with a narrow hyposchism, the latter not reaching behind caudal tergal margin; 7 transverse striae: 3 starting below, 1 level to, 3 above schism; 5 striae (never the first and last from below) crossing the dorsum. Following terga 3-11 with two striae above lateral edge (
<figureCitation captionStart="Figure 5" captionStartId="F5" captionText="Figure 5. Hyleoglomeris rukouqu sp. nov., holotype. A-C Habitus, dorsal, lateral and ventral views, respectively." figureDoi="10.3897/subtbiol.30.35559.figure5" httpUri="https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/314553" pageId="7" pageNumber="64">Fig. 5B</figureCitation>
). Pygidium (last tergite) of both sexes slightly concave medially at caudal margin. ♂ leg 17 with a low, rounded, outer coxal lobe; telopodite 4-segmented (
<figureCitation captionStart="Figure 6" captionStartId="F6" captionText="Figure 6. Hyleoglomeris rukouqu sp. nov., holotype. A leg 17, anterior view B leg 18; anterior view C right half of telopods, posterior view D right half of telopods, anterior views E tip of syncoxital horn, anterior view." figureDoi="10.3897/subtbiol.30.35559.figure6" httpUri="https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/314554" pageId="7" pageNumber="64">Fig. 6A</figureCitation>
). ♂ leg 18 with a subtrianglar syncoxital notch; telopodite 4-segmented (
<figureCitation captionStart="Figure 6" captionStartId="F6" captionText="Figure 6. Hyleoglomeris rukouqu sp. nov., holotype. A leg 17, anterior view B leg 18; anterior view C right half of telopods, posterior view D right half of telopods, anterior views E tip of syncoxital horn, anterior view." figureDoi="10.3897/subtbiol.30.35559.figure6" httpUri="https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/314554" pageId="7" pageNumber="64">Fig. 6B</figureCitation>
).
<emphasis bold="true" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="64">Telopods</emphasis>
: (
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Fig. 6
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) with a large, subrectanglar, central syncoxital lobe flanked by high setose horns, each of the latter with a small lobe on top. Prefemur micropapillate laterally, with a long, digitiform, frontomesal trichostele. Femur with a smaller, digitiform, frontomesal trichostele. Caudomedial femoral process prominent, apically with an evident lobe. Tibia with a frontomesal seta. Caudomesal tibial process evident, recurved; an indistinct, papillate tubercle at base on caudal face. Tarsus strongly sigmoid, narrowly rounded apically.
</paragraph>
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Figure 3.
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="64">Hyleoglomeris rukouqu</emphasis>
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sp. nov. from Shangshuiyan Cave
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</taxonomicName>
sp. nov. from Guanshan No. 4 Cave
<emphasis bold="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="64">C</emphasis>
<taxonomicName class="Diplopoda" family="Paradoxosomatidae" genus="Hylomus" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Hylomus yuani" order="Polydesmida" pageId="7" pageNumber="64" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="yuani">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="64">Hylomus yuani</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
sp. nov. from Liangfeng Cave
<emphasis bold="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="64">D</emphasis>
<taxonomicName class="Diplopoda" family="Haplodesmidae" genus="Eutrichodesmus" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Eutrichodesmus jianjia" order="Polydesmida" pageId="7" pageNumber="64" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="jianjia">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="64">Eutrichodesmus jianjia</emphasis>
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sp. nov. from Guanshan No. 4 Cave.
</paragraph>
</caption>
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<paragraph pageId="7" pageNumber="64">
Figure 4.
<emphasis bold="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="64">A</emphasis>
<taxonomicName class="Dothideomycetes" family="Trichothyriaceae" genus="Trichopeltis" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Fungi" lsidName="Trichopeltis liangfengdong" order="Microthyriales" pageId="7" pageNumber="64" phylum="Ascomycota" rank="species" species="liangfengdong">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="64">Trichopeltis liangfengdong</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
sp. nov. from Liangfeng Cave
<emphasis bold="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="64">B</emphasis>
<taxonomicName class="Diplopoda" family="Polydesmidae" genus="Pacidesmus" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Pacidesmus trifidus" order="Polydesmida" pageId="7" pageNumber="64" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="trifidus">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="64">Pacidesmus trifidus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
Golovatch &amp; Geoffroy, 2014 from Maomaotou Cave
<emphasis bold="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="64">C</emphasis>
<taxonomicName class="Diplopoda" family="Cambalopsidae" genus="Glyphiulus" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Glyphiulus maocun" order="Spirostreptida" pageId="7" pageNumber="64" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="maocun">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="64">Glyphiulus maocun</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
sp. nov. from Liangfeng Cave.
</paragraph>
</caption>
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<paragraph pageId="7" pageNumber="64">
Figure 5.
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="64">Hyleoglomeris rukouqu</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
sp. nov., holotype.
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</emphasis>
Habitus, dorsal, lateral and ventral views, respectively.
</paragraph>
</caption>
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<paragraph pageId="7" pageNumber="64">
Figure 6.
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="64">Hyleoglomeris rukouqu</emphasis>
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sp. nov., holotype.
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leg 17, anterior view
<emphasis bold="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="64">B</emphasis>
leg 18; anterior view
<emphasis bold="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="64">C</emphasis>
right half of telopods, posterior view
<emphasis bold="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="64">D</emphasis>
right half of telopods, anterior views
<emphasis bold="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="64">E</emphasis>
tip of syncoxital horn, anterior view.
</paragraph>
</caption>
</subSubSection>
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<paragraph pageId="8" pageNumber="65">
<pageBreakToken pageId="8" pageNumber="65" start="start">Habitat</pageBreakToken>
.
</paragraph>
<paragraph pageId="8" pageNumber="65">
Specimens were collected within a vegetation association that may be limited to the cave entrance zone and similar geographic features (e.g., sinkholes and fissures in rock). At least three plant species occurred within the entrance including
<taxonomicName family="Gesneriaceae" lsidName="" pageId="8" pageNumber="65" rank="family">Gesneriaceae</taxonomicName>
sp.,
<taxonomicName class="Polypodiopsida" family="Pteridaceae" genus="Adiantum" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Plantae" lsidName="Adiantum" order="Polypodiales" pageId="8" pageNumber="65" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="genus">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="8" pageNumber="65">Adiantum</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
sp., and one other fern species, which cannot be identified without examining the sorii (A. Monro, pers. comm. 2018).
</paragraph>
</subSubSection>
<subSubSection pageId="8" pageNumber="65" type="notes">
<paragraph pageId="8" pageNumber="65">Notes.</paragraph>
<paragraph pageId="8" pageNumber="65">
Based on the vivid color pattern and well-developed ommatidia, as well as the location where it was detected within the cave, this animal represents an epigean species and may be functioning as an obligate troglophile (
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="8" pageNumber="65">sensu</emphasis>
<bibRefCitation DOI="https://doi.org/10.2307/3493189" author="Peck, SB" journalOrPublisher="Florida Entomologist" pageId="31" pageNumber="88" pagination="203 - 207" refId="B62" refString="Peck, SB, 1970. The terrestrial arthropod fauna of Florida caves. . Florida Entomologist 53: 203 - 207" title="The terrestrial arthropod fauna of Florida caves." url="https://doi.org/10.2307/3493189" volume="53" year="1970">Peck 1970</bibRefCitation>
). While it is likely
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sp. nov. either occurred or still occurs in similar habitats on the surface, the importance of relict plant species restricted to cave entrances has been discussed for southern China (
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). Additionally, several arthropod species globally are restricted to cave entrances in Polynesia (
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,
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,
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,
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) and North America (
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,
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) due to either extensive surface disturbance and glacial interglacial cycles, respectively. Thus, it is possible this species is a 'disturbance
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restricted to the entrance of Shangshuiyan Cave and potentially other area cave entrances with similar vegetation.
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